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Cartoon: The Conservative Guide To Fighting Poverty
This is another cartoon I made a two-minute timelapse video for. Making these videos is easy and I enjoy showing them to folks, so I’ll continue doing them now and then. Two things to watch out for in the timelapse … Continue reading
Cartoon: Free Trade Is For Peasants, Not Cartoonists!
There’s something bizarrely fun about drawing myself as a cliche of a wealthy man. Although at the same time I was drawing this cartoon, I was also working on a still-to-come cartoon which also involves lots and lots of panels … Continue reading
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Cartoon: The GOP Tax Policy Cycle!
Bobby Kogen, at the Center for American Progress, writes: Long-term projections show that federal debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy is on a path to grow indefinitely… House Republican leaders have used this fact to call for spending … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Economics and the like
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Cartoon: Self-Made Billionaire
This feels like a very old-fashioned lefty cartoon to me; it’s super-didactic, reliant on labels, has no real punchline, and it’s less about telling a joke then it is about trying to illustrate a basic principal of lefty economics. Other … Continue reading
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Cartoon: 5 Things Congress Says When It Plans To Cut Social Security | Patreon
Drawing five random characters (or semi-random, in this case, since they all had to be plausibly the sort of person who could be in Congress and seeking to cut Social Security) is always fun. In this case, to make them … Continue reading
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Comic: The Debt Ceiling Hostage Crisis
If you like these cartoons, and if you’re inclined to, and if you have the money, and if doing so wouldn’t break any religious rules or local laws, you can support my Patreon. I make a living from lots of … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like, Elections and politics
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Cartoon: Kids Today Are So Lazy
If you like these cartoons, then you’re a terrible terrible person and you should definitely consider a mountain retreat to work on your spiritual size, say five to eight years of contemplating the pine trees, going barefoot and living only … Continue reading
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